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a proper representation. A committee was appointed to select 

 suitable names from the Medical Society, and these names, 

 with suitable credentials, were submitted to the Academy, to- 

 gether with those of a few other nominees, on the 27th of May. 

 The ensuing vote resulted in the election to membership of the 

 following persons : 



Geo. M. Acker, Henry D. Fry, Jas. C. Merrill, 



Samuel S. Adams, W. W. Godding, Willis L. Moore, 



I. S. L. Bermann, Jos. Taber Johnson, Rupert Norton, 



J. Wesley Bovee, Geo. W. Johnston, Robert Reyburn, 



J. H. Bryan, W. W. Johnston, C. W. Richardson, 



Thos. S. Claytor, A. F. A. King, A. R. Shands, 



G. Wythe Cook, C. H. A. Kleinschmidt, I. S. Stone. 



3. MEMBERSHIP. 



As stated in the preceding paragraphs the members of the 

 Academy were elected in three groups. A nucleus of sevent}^- 

 five was chosen by the Joint Commission January 31st, and 

 confirmed by the Incorporators March 5th. Eighty-four other 

 members, accounted as ' original,' were elected March 17th, 

 and twenty-one others, chiefly from the Medical Society, were 

 elected May 27th, making a total of one hundred and eighty 

 members elected. Of this number twelve declined membership, 

 twenty-one others failed to perfect their membership by the pay- 

 ment of dues within the time specified by the by-laws, and of 

 those who perfected their membership three have resigned. 

 The present number of members is one hundred and forty-four. 



4. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ACADEMY. 



The principal work of the Academy in 1898 was organiza- 

 tion, the determination of its rules and membership, and the 

 deliberate preparation of plans for future activities. A number 

 of business meetings were held by the Academy and the Board 

 of Managers in the spring, and the Board of Managers held an- 

 other series of meetings in the autumn and winter. Under the 

 schedule of functions adopted by the Academy the Board has 

 developed the machinery for the publication of proceedings, the 

 conduct of a lecture course, and the holding of occasional meet- 

 ings for the reception of new scientific material. The function 



